| Preface | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Pronunciation | p. 1 |
| The short vowels | p. 3 |
| The long vowels | p. 6 |
| The diphthongs | p. 8 |
| The consonants | p. 13 |
| The phonology of international loanwords | p. 16 |
| Pronunciation of Afrikaans names | p. 22 |
| Pronunciation of South African and foreign place names | p. 24 |
| Insertion of svarabhakti vowels to break up consonant clusters | p. 24 |
| Assimilation | p. 25 |
| Stress | p. 26 |
| Spelling | p. 36 |
| The alphabet | p. 36 |
| The Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreels | p. 37 |
| Syllabification | p. 39 |
| Spelling changes in derived forms | p. 40 |
| The use of diacritic marks in Afrikaans orthography | p. 43 |
| Use of the apostrophe | p. 47 |
| Use of the hyphen | p. 48 |
| Capital letters | p. 51 |
| Spelling of loanwords | p. 52 |
| Punctuation | p. 54 |
| Articles | p. 56 |
| The definite article | p. 56 |
| The indefinite article | p. 65 |
| Nouns | p. 69 |
| Pluralisation of nouns | p. 69 |
| Diminutisation of nouns | p. 87 |
| Feminising endings | p. 96 |
| Possession | p. 98 |
| Proper nouns | p. 101 |
| Nominalisation of adjectives | p. 122 |
| Nominalisation of infinitives | p. 122 |
| Formation of nouns | p. 122 |
| Pronouns | p. 123 |
| Personal pronouns | p. 123 |
| Demonstrative pronouns | p. 142 |
| Relative pronouns | p. 145 |
| Reflexive pronouns | p. 151 |
| The reciprocal pronoun mekaar 'each other' | p. 151 |
| Indefinite pronouns | p. 151 |
| Interrogative pronouns | p. 162 |
| Adjectives | p. 163 |
| Adjectives that take -e | p. 163 |
| Adjectives that don't take -e | p. 167 |
| Nominalised adjectives | p. 170 |
| Adjectives derived from past participles | p. 171 |
| Adjectival inflection in -s | p. 175 |
| The comparative of the adjective | p. 175 |
| The superlative of the adjective | p. 177 |
| Adjectival intensifiers | p. 180 |
| Formation of adjectives | p. 182 |
| Colours | p. 182 |
| Adjectives followed by a fixed preposition | p. 184 |
| Prenominal adjectival phrases | p. 188 |
| Some adjectival idiosyncrasies | p. 188 |
| Adverbs | p. 191 |
| Adverbial use of adjectives | p. 191 |
| Adverbs of degree that qualify adjectives | p. 194 |
| Adverbs of time | p. 198 |
| Adverbs of manner | p. 208 |
| Adverbs of place | p. 208 |
| Adverbial use of prepositions | p. 211 |
| Adverbs of modality | p. 213 |
| Conjunctional adverbs | p. 215 |
| Interrogative adverbs | p. 216 |
| Formation of adverbs | p. 216 |
| Verbs | p. 217 |
| Paradigm of the present and past tenses of a typical verb | p. 217 |
| Alternative forms of the stem of a verb | p. 218 |
| Progressive or continuous constructions | p. 220 |
| Vestiges of the imperfect | p. 222 |
| The perfect tense | p. 223 |
| The historic present | p. 228 |
| The pluperfect | p. 231 |
| The conditional tense | p. 234 |
| The imperative | p. 234 |
| The future and future perfect tenses | p. 235 |
| Wees 'to be' | p. 236 |
| He 'to have' | p. 239 |
| Modal auxiliary verbs | p. 240 |
| The passive voice | p. 257 |
| Separable and inseparable verbs | p. 262 |
| The infinitive | p. 272 |
| The present participle | p. 281 |
| Irregular past participles | p. 282 |
| Verbs that take a prepositional object | p. 282 |
| Reflexive verbs | p. 290 |
| Order of verbs | p. 297 |
| Transitive versus intransitive verbs | p. 297 |
| Conjunctions | p. 300 |
| Co-ordinating conjunctions | p. 300 |
| Adverbial conjunctions | p. 302 |
| Correlative conjunctions | p. 303 |
| Subordinating conjunctions | p. 305 |
| Interrogatives | p. 319 |
| Conjunctions which introduce infinitive clauses | p. 320 |
| Interrogatives | p. 322 |
| Word order in interrogative clauses | p. 327 |
| Interrogatives in infinitive clauses | p. 328 |
| Whatever, whenever etc. | p. 328 |
| Prepositions | p. 330 |
| List of prepositions | p. 330 |
| Prepositional stranding | p. 345 |
| Met ] mee, tot ] toe and vir ] voor | p. 345 |
| Compound prepositions in -kant | p. 347 |
| Adverbial functions of prepositions | p. 347 |
| Assimilation of the definite article to a preceding preposition | p. 348 |
| Adjectives and verbs followed by a fixed preposition | p. 348 |
| Omission of prepositions | p. 348 |
| Insertion of prepositions where none is required in English | p. 351 |
| Postpositioned prepositions | p. 351 |
| Double prepositions | p. 353 |
| Circumpositioned prepositions in prepositional phrases | p. 354 |
| Prepositional phrases | p. 359 |
| Adverbial qualifiers of prepositions | p. 360 |
| Prepositional phrases consisting of with + noun + it/them | p. 361 |
| Word order | p. 362 |
| Order of verbs | p. 362 |
| Nominal and adjectival/adverbial adjuncts that can behave like separable prefixes | p. 381 |
| Order of objects, adjectives and adverbs qualifying verbs in the continuous constructions formed from le, loop, sit and staan | p. 385 |
| Position of nominal and pronominal direct and indirect objects | p. 387 |
| Position of reflexive pronouns | p. 388 |
| Position of adverbs | p. 390 |
| Placing of various parts of speech at the beginning of a sentence for emphasis | p. 393 |
| Prepositional stranding | p. 394 |
| Position in an infinitive clause of a preposition dependent on a predicative adjective or verb | p. 398 |
| Position of adjectives that take a fixed preposition | p. 399 |
| Independent prepositions renderIng preposition + 'it/them' | p. 399 |
| Idiomatic expressions consisting of two elements with the reverse order to English | p. 400 |
| Negation | p. 401 |
| The negators | p. 401 |
| Rules for the use and position of the scope marker | p. 401 |
| Use of the scope marker with the negators geen/g'n 'no, not any', nerens 'nowhere', niemand 'no-one', niks 'nothing', nooit 'never' | p. 408 |
| Position of the negator | p. 410 |
| Geen/g'n 'no, not a, not any' | p. 413 |
| Nie eens/eers 'not even,' nooit eens/eers 'never even' | p. 414 |
| Glad/hoegenaamd nie 'not/no...at all' | p. 414 |
| So nie 'if not', al dan nie 'or not', nie so seer nie 'not so much' | p. 414 |
| Eers 'not until' | p. 415 |
| Net nie 'simply not', nie net 'not only/just' | p. 415 |
| Moenie/moet + nie in imperatives | p. 416 |
| Nie- (non- + noun) | p. 417 |
| Use of wel to reverse a negative | p. 417 |
| Use of ne, nie waar nie and is dit nie | p. 417 |
| Negation in rhetorical questions | p. 418 |
| Non-negator negatives | p. 418 |
| Assimilation of nie to preceding consonants | p. 419 |
| Numerals | p. 420 |
| Cardinal numerals | p. 420 |
| Ordinal numerals | p. 423 |
| Fractions | p. 426 |
| Arithmetic | p. 426 |
| Telling the time | p. 427 |
| Telephone numbers | p. 429 |
| Dates | p. 429 |
| Age | p. 429 |
| Currency and measurement | p. 430 |
| School marks | p. 434 |
| School class levels | p. 434 |
| Word formation | p. 435 |
| Vestiges of historical structures in word formation | p. 435 |
| Formation of nouns | p. 438 |
| Formation of adjectives | p. 442 |
| Formation of adverbs | p. 444 |
| Formation of verbs | p. 446 |
| Derivatives of numerals | p. 447 |
| Reduplication | p. 447 |
| Appendix 1: Texts | p. 451 |
| Appendix 2: letter writing | p. 470 |
| Appendix 3: Greetings, apologies, swearing etc. | p. 472 |
| Glossary | p. 479 |
| Bibliography | p. 483 |
| Index | p. 491 |
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